The Earth keeps moving… till December

The remake of the 50’s sci-fi classic THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL has been delayed until December reports Dark Horizons. The studio claim the reason is the worry that SPEED RACER will take away it’s audience on May 9th next year when both films were due to open head-to-head but it’s obvious it’s been delayed because they haven’t actually got round to filming anything yet.

They hired THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE director Scott Derrickson to helm this movie all the way back in April and it took them over four months to secure Keanu Reeves as their first casting and principal photography hasn’t begun yet, so even if SPEED RACER wasn’t opening on that day then there was no way in hell they would have it completed in time.

The original is one of the most fascinating of 50’s sci-fi paranoia and although the themes are relevant today, a remake is about as unnecessary as they come. I did like THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE though, even if it did just take the best parts of THE EXORCIST and build a hammy story around that.

Maybe 20th Century Fox should have a built a new story that homaged the original but wasn’t actually a remake. Maybe that would have worked better?

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